Inhaltsangabe

A new translation of Georges Simenon's sensational tale of deceit and back-stabbing in an isolated community, part of the new Maigret series.

She came forward, the outlines of her figure blurred in the half-light. She came forward like a film star, or rather like the ideal woman in an adolescent's dream. 'I gather you wish to talk to me, Inspector...but first of all please sit down....' Her accent was more pronounced than Carl's. Her voice sang, dropping on the last syllable of the longer words.

Maigret has been interrogating Carl Andersen for 17 hours without a confession. He's either innocent or a very good liar. So why was the body of a diamond merchant found at his isolated mansion? Why is his sister always shut away in her room? And why does everyone at Three Widows Crossroads have something to hide?

Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. Best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret books, his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.

Linda Coverdale is the awarding-winning translator of many French works and has been honoured with the title of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters for her contribution to French literature.

The first audiobook which appeared in Georges Simenon's famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos.Inevitably Maigret was a hostile presence in the Majestic. He constituted a kind of foreign body that the hotel's atmosphere could not assimilate. Not that he looked like a cartoon policeman. He didn't have a moustache and he didn't wear heavy boots. His clothes were well cut and made of fairly light worsted. He shaved every day and looked after his hands. But his frame was proletarian. He was a big, bony man.

Mr Hire's Engagement

Autor:
Georges Simenon

Sprecher:
Andrew Wincott

Spieldauer: 4 Std. und 38 Min.

Ungekürztes

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People find Mr Hire strange, disconcerting. The tenants he shares his building with try to avoid him. He is a Peeping Tom, a visitor of prostitutes, a dealer in unsavoury literature. He is also the prime suspect for a brutal murder that he did not commit. Yet Mr Hire's innocence will not stand in the way of those looking for a scapegoat as tragedy unfolds in this quietly devastating and deeply unnerving audiobook.

When I Was Old

Autor:
Georges Simenon

Sprecher:
Sean Barrett

Spieldauer: 12 Std. und 27 Min.

Ungekürztes

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Georges Simenon's autobiographical notebooks, in which he recorded his observations, experiences, anxieties and 'all the silly ideas that pass through my head', are one of the most candid self-portraits of a writer ever put to paper. Here, as the celebrated author ruthlessly examines his tortuous writing methods, his past, his fame, his intimate relationships and his fears of ageing, the result is an unsparing, often painfully revealing insight into a man trying both to find and to escape himself.

The Blue Room

Autor:
Georges Simenon,
Linda Coverdale - Translator

Sprecher:
Jack Hawkins

Spieldauer: 4 Std. und 4 Min.

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A new translation of Simenon's gripping novel about lives transformed by deceit and the destructive power of lust. It was all real: himself, the room, Andrée still lying on the ravaged bed. For Tony and Andrée, there are no rules when they meet in the blue room at the Hôtel des Voyageurs. Their adulterous affair is intoxicating, passionate - and dangerous. Soon it turns into a nightmare from which there can be no escape.

The Hand

Autor:
Georges Simenon,
Linda Coverdale - Translator

Sprecher:
Peter Brooke

Spieldauer: 4 Std. und 45 Min.

Ungekürztes

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'I had begun, God knows why, tearing a corner off of everyday truth, begun seeing myself in another kind of mirror, and now the whole of the old, more or less comfortable truth was falling to pieces.' Confident and successful, New York advertising executive Ray Sanders takes what he wants from life. When he goes missing in a snowstorm in Connecticut one evening, his closest friend begins to reassess his loyalties, gambling with Ray's fate and his own future.

The Unexpected Truth About Animals

Autor:
Lucy Cooke

Sprecher:
Lucy Cooke

Spieldauer: 10 Std. und 28 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
3

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
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Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
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History is full of strange animal stories, invented by the brightest and most influential, from Aristotle to Disney, and they reveal as much about us and the things we believe as they do about the animals they misrepresent. We once thought that eels were born from sand, that swallows migrated to the moon, and that bears gave birth to formless lumps that were licked into shape by their mothers.

Pietr the Latvian

Inspector Maigret, Book 1

Autor:
Georges Simenon,
David Bellos (translator)

Sprecher:
Gareth Armstrong

Spieldauer: 3 Std. und 57 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
3

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
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Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
3

The first audiobook which appeared in Georges Simenon's famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos.Inevitably Maigret was a hostile presence in the Majestic. He constituted a kind of foreign body that the hotel's atmosphere could not assimilate. Not that he looked like a cartoon policeman. He didn't have a moustache and he didn't wear heavy boots. His clothes were well cut and made of fairly light worsted. He shaved every day and looked after his hands. But his frame was proletarian. He was a big, bony man.

Mr Hire's Engagement

Autor:
Georges Simenon

Sprecher:
Andrew Wincott

Spieldauer: 4 Std. und 38 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

0 out of 5 stars
0

Sprecher

0 out of 5 stars
0

Geschichte

0 out of 5 stars
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People find Mr Hire strange, disconcerting. The tenants he shares his building with try to avoid him. He is a Peeping Tom, a visitor of prostitutes, a dealer in unsavoury literature. He is also the prime suspect for a brutal murder that he did not commit. Yet Mr Hire's innocence will not stand in the way of those looking for a scapegoat as tragedy unfolds in this quietly devastating and deeply unnerving audiobook.

When I Was Old

Autor:
Georges Simenon

Sprecher:
Sean Barrett

Spieldauer: 12 Std. und 27 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

0 out of 5 stars
0

Sprecher

0 out of 5 stars
0

Geschichte

0 out of 5 stars
0

Georges Simenon's autobiographical notebooks, in which he recorded his observations, experiences, anxieties and 'all the silly ideas that pass through my head', are one of the most candid self-portraits of a writer ever put to paper. Here, as the celebrated author ruthlessly examines his tortuous writing methods, his past, his fame, his intimate relationships and his fears of ageing, the result is an unsparing, often painfully revealing insight into a man trying both to find and to escape himself.

The Blue Room

Autor:
Georges Simenon,
Linda Coverdale - Translator

Sprecher:
Jack Hawkins

Spieldauer: 4 Std. und 4 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

0 out of 5 stars
0

Sprecher

0 out of 5 stars
0

Geschichte

0 out of 5 stars
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A new translation of Simenon's gripping novel about lives transformed by deceit and the destructive power of lust. It was all real: himself, the room, Andrée still lying on the ravaged bed. For Tony and Andrée, there are no rules when they meet in the blue room at the Hôtel des Voyageurs. Their adulterous affair is intoxicating, passionate - and dangerous. Soon it turns into a nightmare from which there can be no escape.

The Hand

Autor:
Georges Simenon,
Linda Coverdale - Translator

Sprecher:
Peter Brooke

Spieldauer: 4 Std. und 45 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

0 out of 5 stars
0

Sprecher

0 out of 5 stars
0

Geschichte

0 out of 5 stars
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'I had begun, God knows why, tearing a corner off of everyday truth, begun seeing myself in another kind of mirror, and now the whole of the old, more or less comfortable truth was falling to pieces.' Confident and successful, New York advertising executive Ray Sanders takes what he wants from life. When he goes missing in a snowstorm in Connecticut one evening, his closest friend begins to reassess his loyalties, gambling with Ray's fate and his own future.

The Unexpected Truth About Animals

Autor:
Lucy Cooke

Sprecher:
Lucy Cooke

Spieldauer: 10 Std. und 28 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
3

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
3

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
3

History is full of strange animal stories, invented by the brightest and most influential, from Aristotle to Disney, and they reveal as much about us and the things we believe as they do about the animals they misrepresent. We once thought that eels were born from sand, that swallows migrated to the moon, and that bears gave birth to formless lumps that were licked into shape by their mothers.